[swanny65]

Hi

A quick bit of history. Last weekend i had the dreaded blue screen on start up. I manage to boot my PC using the win2000 emergency recovery console and the PC booted normally each day this week.

Concerned the hard drive might be failing i bought another. I have installed the hard drive using Seagate Discwizard.

I then set about cloning the original hard drive onto the new hard drive. However at the initial reboot i got a blue screen and i cant get the PC reboot into windows. Seagate's software did flash a message about locking partitions but i suspect this was normal at the start of the copying process. The PC wont boot either with or without the slave drive drive attached and i have tried various recovery attempts - all of which have failed.

The latest blue screen has a message kmode exception not handled

I cant believe the original hard drive has failed just before cloning.

Can anyone offer any asistance.

Regards

[swanny65]

Hi

I have managed to boot the PC into safe mode. What now for a repair....

[swanny65]

Hi

Have copied my hard disc after making a bootable cd with seagate discwizard......
Wont boot off the copy.
Back in safe mode i cant view network and dial up connections, so i cant get online, from the control panel or start menu, could this be a problem.
Wanted to run memory test.
Should i reformat and copy back from the new hard drive copy i have made.

[TheOutcaste]

What is the complete error message on the Blue Screen?
Just the info in the Technical Information section, in particular the driver file name if it's mentioned.

If you can boot to Safe Mode, something that loads in Normal Mode is causing the problem. That could be due to a corrupt file caused by a problem on the disk. If the corrupt file gets cloned to the new drive it will have the same problem.

The Network and Dial-up Connections window will eventually open in Safe Mode but will be blank. You need to use Safe Mode with Networking to have network access; unless it's one of the networking components causing the problem.

Have you run chkdsk /R on the drive to check for bad sectors?
To Run Chkdsk:
Click Start | Run, type cmd, press Enter
Type chkdsk /R C: and press Enter. (Note the spaces between the colored parts).
You'll likely see this:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Cannot lock current drive.

Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another
process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be
checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N)

Hit Y and Enter, then reboot. This could take a long time depending on size of drive and how many errors it finds.

Chkdsk will create a log in the Event Viewer in the Application log (Start | Run, type eventvwr.msc, press Enter) with a source of WinLogon (Wininit Vista/Win 7) that will show a summary of the results.

You can click the Source column header to sort by Source, or Filter the view

• Win2K/XP:
  Click View | Filter... and select WinLogon[/B] as the Event Source.
  Click View | All Records to remove the filter
• Vista/Win 7:
  Click Action | Filter Current log... and check Wininit in the Event Sources: drop down.
  Click Action | Clear Filter to remove the filter

[Ed999]

The following page only applies to a FAT32 disk, so in general it won't help you with your NTFS disk.

But the comments regarding the Blue Screen of Death (causes and cures) look to be generally applicable to 32-bit Windows, so you might find that section helpful -

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/bridip/recovery.htm#sectionC

I was also going to mention a cure that I once used on a tricky disk: get a software program that will write zeros to every sector of the disk. This is a way of completely blanking it, to delete the rogue data which is presumably causing your fault. Then try again at partitioning and formatting the disk, but using other tools (not the ones that let you down the first time).

I can't recommend any Win2k-specific software; I use Windows 9x. But a Google search will undoubtedly find some, e.g. search for "zero-fill" or "zero-filling" and "hard disk".

http://www.google.com/search?btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=hard+disk&as_oq=%22zero-fill%22+%22zero-filling%22&hl=en&lr=lang_en